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Tuesday’s headlines
DEVELOPMENT • Historic postal station site may be for sale [Toronto Star] • Mississauga ice rink: IcePark wants to build multi-use winter facility...
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Urban Planet: Barcelona’s Vegitecture
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
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Instaflaneur: late evenings on the Toronto Islands municipal pier
A Sunday afternoon spent on the Hanlan’s Point beach ends waiting for the Wards Island ferry back to the mainland. With ferry cutbacks to an already...
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Monday’s headlines
CITY COUNCIL • Toronto votes: Ranked ballots for 2018? Toronto city council may vote on changing its election system [Toronto Star] • ‘Adam Vaughan’s goal...
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Toronto’s next generation of architects
There’s a new group of architects looking up at our city with fresh, bright eyes. They’re interested in changing the way people move through the streets...
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Toronto from above — big, green and beautiful — a photo essay from a helicopter by Shawn Micallef
This week in my Toronto Star column I write about a helicopter ride I tagged along on last Friday with photographer Cindy Blazevic as she snapped pics...
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STREET SCENE: University /College
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Urban Planet: Smart Growth in Calgary
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
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Complete streets coming to a Canadian city near you
The Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation (TCAT) has launched a nationwide campaign that promotes cities to adopt “complete streets”...
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The Spacing Bike: our new mobile store on three wheels
WHAT: Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington WHEN: Sunday, July 29th noon-7pm WHERE: Kensington Market (find us along the north end of Augusta Ave) For over 8...
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Friday’s headlines
ONTARIO PLACE • Hume: Tory report on Ontario Place too sensible to be implemented [Toronto star] • Sell off chunk of Ontario Place to developers, maybe...
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Urban Planet: Live Where You Go
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered